Woman charged over fatal NSW crash

A woman has been charged over a head-on crash in which a mother and her seven-year-old son were killed on the Hume Highway south of Sydney earlier this year.

In March, a 49-year-old female driver was killed in a two-car smash at Pheasants Head which also left her son dead and her daughter recovering from serious injuries in hospital, NSW police said in a statement on Monday.

The female driver of the other vehicle, also 49, was charged with multiple driving offences, including dangerous driving occasioning death and is due to face Picton Local Court on September 5.